The director of a reception center and an educator warned that one of the minors was a prostitute: "She returns to the center in total helplessness, looking like a junkie"

• Events The Prosecutor's Office notified the Community of Madrid in August of the police investigation after the first case of prostitution of supervised minors

• Events Three of the minors prostituted by a network of pimps resided in centers of the Community of Madrid

• Politics The opposition in the Madrid Assembly calls for an extraordinary plenary session and a commission for the case of prostituted minors

The director of the center for the protection of minors in Aranjuez, dependent on the Community of Madrid, made a report on June 9, 2021 indicating that she

in the streets of Madrid. In the same letter, he warned that the XXII Group of the Provincial Brigade of the Judicial Police of Madrid was investigating the alleged prostitution of this minor. This official report on the girl's risk situation was urgently forwarded to the National Police, which was investigating the case, and who questioned several of the educators at the residence.

One of the center's workers also told the agents that the girl could be practicing prostitution and that "she

." What happened to this teenager ended up uncovering last November an alleged network of pimps who prostituted minors, several of them protected by the Community of Madrid, and used them for the sale and distribution of drugs between narco-flats and shanty towns.

Despite the relevant report on the adolescent signed by the director of the center for the protection of minors, another letter from the Prosecutor's Office sent to the Ministry of Social Policy and a complaint of the rape of a minor under guardianship,

, several of them under guardianship, as confirmed in the police proceedings.

The regional government initially denied the information

that several of the released minors were under the guardianship of the Community of Madrid, even through its official Twitter account.

It was later shown that at least three victims were in his charge and the message was deleted.

Subsequently, EL MUNDO revealed that last August the Provincial Prosecutor's Office had notified the Community of Madrid of the police investigation into the network of pimps as a result of this first known case of a prostituted minor. Days later, the director of another Community protection center, located in Paracuellos del Jarama,

The Minister of Social Policy, Concepción Dancausa,

in which the National Police demanded that measures be adopted from public institutions to care for the same adolescent from the center of Aranjuez and requested, at the same time, his entry into a closed regime center, because he continually escaped from the protection enclosures and continued to prostitute himself.

The Ministry insists that it actively collaborates with the National Police in all cases of minors

who may have been victims of any type of crime.

The report of the director of the Aranjuez juvenile center on the prostitution of the 15-year-old girl was urgently sent to the Police, who since April had been investigating several cases of exploitation of minors without a common link until the plot was discovered in September after associate several of them, find out that the victims knew each other and know that some of them had passed through the same juvenile center.

The eight-page document signed by the director of the Aranjuez juvenile center appears in the report made by the Police and sent to the court that is investigating the network of pimps.

In theory,

, a competent body, among other things, in matters of protection of minors and dependent on the Ministry of Social Policy of the Community of Madrid.

In the report, the director of the center explains the difficult journey of the minor, who continually escapes from the residence to consume more and more drugs and who also came to be treated at the CIASI (Child Abuse Intervention Center).

It also points out that "the girl claims the need to be helped to get out of the life she is leading and that they themselves recognized that it was not good for anyone, much less for a girl her age, but at the same time she expressed how difficult that it was going to be for him to remain in the same situation, with rules and schedules, after having lost control of his life".

He adds "that there is constant support for the minor and that she does not go to the institute either, so the truancy protocol was activated."

It adds that the girl was assigned a therapeutic center in Navarra,

but that her admission could not be carried out due to her prolonged absence, despite the fact that said place was reserved for her for two months.

“We strongly suspect that the minor may be prostituting herself, even when she is asked where she gets the money to consume in the doses that she does, she says that

but who does not want to give any more explanation, something that is really worrying to us».

In the same month of June, the National Police questioned one of the workers at the residence, who pointed out that the minor ran away from the center and that: “when she returned, she did so in conditions of total abandonment, dirty and looking like a

. , with hardly any strength”, which is why they managed to get him to agree to an analysis that tested positive for cocaine and cannabis. Likewise,

" and the consumption of up to 35 euros of cocaine per day. In her account, she details that when she was asked if she was a prostitute, she did not answer and laughed.

The National Police explained that many of the young victims of the sexual exploitation plot were captured in juvenile centers to get them used to substances such as cocaine and crack.

continue to investigate whether there are more minor victims of the plot and maintain that all cases of abuse and drug trafficking are outside the centers of the Community of Madrid.

The opposition groups in the Madrid Assembly asked last Monday after learning that

, four of them supervised by the Regional Government. The PSOE has registered the creation of a study commission, United We Can has requested an extraordinary plenary session and Más Madrid has requested the resignation of the Minister of Social and Family Policy, Concepción Dancausa.

The Minister of Social Policy, Concepción Dancausa, recalled that they have appeared in the legal case as a

and that she has already requested to appear at her own request in the Madrid Assembly to "explain the case".

However,

."

"They are minors, their lives are being discussed and some are protected witnesses. We have to be very careful because we have the care, custody and guardianship of these girls and, therefore, we are going to be extremely careful in the data that we are going to to give. And I am going to ask that everyone be so because if not, what we are going to achieve is to harm them," he added.

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